Good luck and bad luck: how to tell the
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Karl Halvor Teigen; Pia C. Evensen; Dimitrij K. Samoilow; Karin B. Vatne
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Good luck implies comparison with a worse counterfactual outcome, whereas bad luck implies upward comparisons. People will accordingly describe themselves as particularly lucky after recollecting situations where they avoided something negative, and as particularly unlucky after recollecting episode